A model diorama showing a glider painted in D-Day stripes as it disgorges a tank and infantry, which was made as a 100th birthday gift for D-Day veteran Bill Gladden, shown at his surprise 100th birthday party in Haverhill, England Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Gladden spoke to the AP on the eve of his 100th birthday, and is a veteran of the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, he landed by glider on the afternoon of D-day, 6th June 1944 in Normandy. Gladden was born Jan. 13, 1924. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)